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| The Cartagena-born Lorena Madrid, a member of the crew, has been supported by family, friends and the Cartagena Port Authority | From ship to ship they greeted each other and handed over the flags of Spain, the Region and Cartagena. Every year, 5 cancer survivors make dreams and goals that seemed unattainable come true, carrying out a great challenge in some of the most remote places on the planet and led by great figures from the country's scientific and sports scene. Today the ship has docked in Cartagena where family, friends, the president of the Real Club de Regatas, councilor Manuel Padín, the director of the APC, Fermín Rol, the president of the APC, Yolanda Muñoz, have wanted to greet the Cartagena Lorena Madrid Rubio, partner and athlete of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena, which this year is one of the five sailors in the 'Reto Pelayo Vida', going around Spain on a Volvo V70 sailboat. Given the current global pandemic situation due to Covid19 and taking into account the socioeconomic circumstances that Spain is going through, the Pelayo Vida Vuelta España 2020 Challenge, for the first time, will not carry out an expedition abroad.
This year, the project organization has decided to stay home and show its support and solidarity with the people who have suffered and are suffering the consequences of the virus. The five expeditionaries of the Pelayo Vida Vuelta España 2020 Challenge are: Marián de Elche, Lorena de Cartagena, Fátima de Jerez, María de Barakaldo and Nuria de Teruel.
They left Bilbao, on October 12; their second stop was on October 17 in Cádiz where they received the Juan Sebastián Elcano Award.
Their next stopover was on the 19th in Malaga from where they left for Cartagena to enter the port today and continue to Valencia, ending the navigation on October 24 in Barcelona after having passed through the Cantabrian, Atlantic and Mediterranean; crossing the Strait and making stops at the ports of Cádiz, Malaga and Valencia to finish in Barcelona. The expeditionaries are five brave women who have overcome cancer and have now made the decision to change their lives and face the Pelayo Vida Challenge to put their bodies and minds to the limit with several objectives: to prove to themselves that after overcoming cancer the life can be resumed normally; make the disease visible to help other women in the same situation, make opinion leaders aware of the importance of investing in cancer research and convey to society about the benefits of leading a healthy life and doing physical exercise to prevent any type of illness. The president, Yolanda Muñoz, has indicated that "five women who have overcome this disease are traveling the Spanish coast giving voice and visibility to the real possibility of dominating breast cancer and being happy after defeating it.
They launch a message of hope to women who have suffered or are currently suffering from it and encourage them to overcome the disease.
Having Lorena Madrid from Cartagena among the crew this year is a source of pride for all of us and also a stimulus to overcome difficulties ". The objective of these challenges is to transmit a message 'loud and clear' to all women who have overcome cancer and also to those, who at this time are fighting their own 'challenge' against this disease. Expeditions: 2015 Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895m), the first challenge they faced climbing one of the most iconic mountains in Africa 2016 Trasatlántica, in its second edition, aims to disseminate the benefits of doing physical exercise during and after cancer treatment.
64 years after the feat of Ann Davidson, five women who had suffered cancer crossed the Atlantic in 13 days and 8 hours, joining Tenerife with Martinique.
In total 5,083 km aboard the 73 foot sailboat, 'Cannonball'. 2017 Polar, the Arctic adventure in its purest form in this third edition of the Pelayo Vida Challenge: they travel more than 100 km on foot, surrounded by ice, crevices, icebergs and glaciers, at -35 ° C of temperature and with a load 30 kg on the back without any external assistance.
An endurance test for five women who demonstrated that it was possible to overcome a disease such as cancer and that it will be possible to travel this distance in a spectacular setting, but at the same time very aggressive due to its extreme temperatures. 2018 Annapurna, the Himalayan adventure in its purest form in this fourth edition of the Pelayo Vida Challenge: they travel more than 300 kilometers of distance on mountain bikes, through the Annapurna valley, crowned by the tenth highest mountain on Earth (8091 m).
The five expeditionaries will ascend 4,300 meters above sea level, covering the distance that separates the cities of Tatopani and Lo Manthang, in the forbidden kingdom of Mustang. 2019 Andes, endurance test for six women, five Spanish and one Mexican, who demonstrated, after overcoming breast cancer, that it is possible to cross from south to north, on MTB's, the Salar de Uyuni, the largest salt desert in the world.
world, within which the entire autonomous community of Asturias fits.
After reaching the Sajama National Park, they will have to climb and conquer the summits of Acotango (6,052 m.) And Nevado Sajama (6,542 m), the highest point in Bolivia and the 10th highest volcano on the planet.
Source: Agencias
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